"Comin' Round the Mountain" (1936) presents us with an action packed 55 minutes, although one suspects that supervising editor Joseph H. Lewis has raided the stock library for a long sequence in which Gene Autry actually drops out of the plot in order to accommodate a great amount of bronc-busting and mustang chasing.
As if this were not sufficient to send audiences away happily, there is also some thrilling stunt-work in the climactic race sequence.
Another stand-out scene shows Champion (playing the mustang, El Diablo) hotly pursued by a pack of coyotes. Autry himself doesn't come across a fraction as strongly.
And in this movie occasion, Gene is handed only two songs!
On the other hand, the movie bends over to accommodate Smiley Burnette, who is prominently featured in an amusing matador routine.
As if this were not sufficient to send audiences away happily, there is also some thrilling stunt-work in the climactic race sequence.
Another stand-out scene shows Champion (playing the mustang, El Diablo) hotly pursued by a pack of coyotes. Autry himself doesn't come across a fraction as strongly.
And in this movie occasion, Gene is handed only two songs!
On the other hand, the movie bends over to accommodate Smiley Burnette, who is prominently featured in an amusing matador routine.